"But if you let (the news media) report, and I don't have the same numbers I've had in years past, it's going to be because, oh, I'm 35 years old. 'Oh, he's slowing down.' … You put us in a dome then you have a valid point if those numbers don't add up."

Toronto has a dome.

"Exactly," he says.

The Bills will play the New York Jets in a dome-away-from-home game in Toronto in December. Many Bills fans fret that such games are a harbinger of their beloved Bills moving there some day.

How does Owens feel about the Bills staying in Buffalo?

"I would love it," he says. "I mean, honestly, I think it would be great if the team stayed here. The only negative is — this is my first year, this is just me speaking out loud — but I think it should be an inside facility. They should be playing in a dome."

Owens played in Philadelphia and in milder climes in San Francisco and Dallas.

"At the same time they haven't won a Super Bowl in a while," Owens says. "I mean, getting to The Show is one thing, winning it is another."

The Bills famously lost four Super Bowls. Owens lost one, too, with the Eagles. Owens says winning a Super Bowl is what he came to Buffalo to do.

"I'm here to give these fans what they've been looking for so long," he says.

Um, this year? Really?

"Why not this year?" he says. "For me, I have a one-year deal, so I don't have anything to look further to."

"I love his confidence," Buffalo mayor Byron Brown says.

When Brown presented Owens a key to the city — the first in Buffalo history given with conditions — the mayor asked Owens for 10 touchdowns and a place in the playoffs. Short of that, the mayor wants his key back.

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